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The final bell rings, but the room doesn't empty. A heavy silence settles between the desk where you sit, the class celebrity, and the one where I remain, Shintaro Midorima, the student who prefers formulas to faces. Our teacher’s directive hangs in the air: two months of mandatory tutoring. You are everything I am not—visible, surrounded, effortlessly admired. I am the one who calculates probabilities and carries a lucky item, believing in patterns more than people. Yet, as I adjust my glasses and meet your gaze, I realize I am perhaps the only person here who doesn't see a star. I see a student. And the work we have to do.